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At one of his campaign rallies, Republican Presidential Candidate Donald J. Trump advocated shutting down parts of the Internet as a response to radicalism:
As the video below shows, Trump told a rally that "We are losing a lot of people to the Internet. We have to do something. We have to go see Bill Gates and a lot of different people that really understand what's happening."
"We have to talk to them [about], maybe in certain areas, closing that internet up in some way."
"Some people will say, 'Freedom of speech, Freedom of speech'," Trump added, before saying "These are foolish people. We have a lot of foolish people."
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In two tweets, Trump turned his attention to Jeff Bezos's taxes:
The @washingtonpost, which loses a fortune, is owned by @JeffBezos for purposes of keeping taxes down at his no profit company, @amazon.
The @washingtonpost loses money (a deduction) and gives owner @JeffBezos power to screw public on low taxation of @Amazon! Big tax shelter
Finally, a Trump campaign statement released on Monday calls for "a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States until our country's representatives can figure out what is going on".
Trump is in good company when it comes to clamping down on free speech. In the wake of the San Bernardino attack, both President Obama and Hillary Clinton have hinted at renewing the war against encryption and denying "online space" to ISIS:
In his Oval Office speech on Sunday night about the fight against ISIS, President Obama devoted one line in his speech to the topic. "I will urge high-tech and law enforcement leaders to make it harder for terrorists to use technology to escape from justice," he said.
Meanwhile, Clinton, the Democratic presidential frontrunner, gave a talk at the Brookings Institution where she urged tech companies to deny ISIS "online space," and waved away concerns about First Amendment issues.
"We're going to have to have more support from our friends in the technology world to deny online space. Just as we have to destroy [ISIS's] would-be caliphate, we have to deny them online space," she said.
(Score: 4, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @02:49AM
This is how Bernie is going to lose. He won't get past the primaries. The population will never have an opportunity to vote for him on a ballot. Clinton has spent fifteen years gobbling up support of superdelegates, essentially individuals that, as a group, have more say in who will be running on the Democratic ticket than everyone else combined. All she had to do was make a few hundred friends. With Trump being on the other side, and nearly everyone past the age of 50 voting straight-line ticket, write-ins, third-party candidates, and the Republicans don't stand a chance. She has been working on this her whole life.
She easily out games people that have made a career of gamesmanship. Just take a look at the Benghazi hearings to see it, and her stupid smug face in action. Hillary will win even if 90% of the electorate doesn't want her to. Hillary will win even if there are better candidates. Her credentials don't matter. Her breaking the law doesn't matter. Her lying, scheming, two-faced masquerading as a quarter-decent human being doesn't matter.
Bernie is Stannis. Trump is Joffrey. Hillary is Cersei. Jeb is Hodor. Foreigners lose. Peasants lose. The psychopath megalomaniac courtier wins. The end.
(Score: 4, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @04:34AM
Obama didn't seem intimidated by her in 2008.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday December 10 2015, @07:40AM
She didn't have the super delegates in her pocket by 2008 either.